Improvement in garden-roller



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fJaM-E sl B. BROWN, ory PE E'K eK IL L, NE W YORK.,

` I Letters Patient No. 84,167, dated November-17, 1868.

w IMPRCVMENT IN GARDEN-ROLLER.

-H The Schecule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part 0f the Balli@- Be it known that I, JAMES B. BROWN, of Peekskill, in the county of Westchester, and State of New York,

have invented a new and im proved Garden-Roller; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,

The object of this invention is to so construct a gardei 1-roller, in vvhich Weights are suspended from the axle, that the said Weights can be readily taken off,

and replaced whenever desired, so that the roller can be made more or-less heavy at will, according to the kind of work to be done.

A, in the drawing, represents -the rim or shell of a garden-roller of ordinary' orsuitable construction. It is made of one or more sections, -as may be desired, each section being hung loose on the shaft B, so that it can turn on said shaft-without turning the latter.

C represents -the bifurcated handle. The ends are fitted to the squared or polygonal ends of the shaft, so

that the shaft Will not turn when the moved over the ground.`

From the axle are suspended Weights, D D, which are to increase the operating-power of the apparatus and to keep the handle oi the groi 1n d A apparatus is invariably been so attached to the airle'that they could not be readily removed.,

My inventionA consists in making them readily removable, so that the roller may be used with or with- 'out Weights, as may be desired.

A, as herein shown and described.

JAMES B, BROWN.

Witnesses: l

A. V. BRInsEN,v

ALEX. F. Ronnn'rs..

' These weights have already been lin use, but have My weight-S are provided with hook-shaped shanks, a, which are iitted over square or polygonal portions,

the shaft B, squared portions b b, handles O, and roller 

